Actually, the Luddites in the current conversation are the ones decrying technological advancement itself. On the policy side, they tend to favor propping up o

Actually, the Luddites in the current conversation are the ones decrying technological advancement itself. On the policy side, they tend to favor propping up old, inefficient industries (essentially subsidizing them at the expense of the rest of the population). A basic income has been considered common sense in economic theory for a long, long time (as in, it's been discussed by economists for at least a century). It has less to do with the obsolescence of human labor than it does to the fact that it's simply grossly inefficient to tie "the ability to take entrepreneurial risk" to "I was born middle-class or higher".